Miguel Syjuco Quotes

The immigrant experience in 'Ilustrado' was only a small part of what I intended to be a broader look at the Filipino experience, even if that broader look was itself merely a specific perspective.

Miguel Syjuco

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: filipino
  • Birth: November 17, 1976

Topics

PerspectiveExperienceSmallLook

When I write a book, characters come to life for me somewhere at the back of my head. I strive to make them flesh and blood in an abstract way, in words.

Jhumpa Lahiri

LifeWordsMeBookBackWay

Everywhere that Americans spread off the Eastern seaboard, heading west across this country, they put up the schoolhouse first, hired a schoolteacher, and put all the kids in school.

John Glenn

SchoolCountryFirstUpSpreadWest

It's a complex relationship when your dad happened to be president and you are president and then you have all the amateur psychology that goes on when people try to speculate about motivations.

Jeb Bush

RelationshipPeopleYouTryComplex

It's always nice to be thought of and asked to do anything, let alone something different.

Merritt Wever

AloneThoughtNiceAlwaysAnything

I took up boxing out of sheer interest and to help my parents financially.

Mary Kom

ParentsHelpBoxingOutUpInterest

Every single dollar spent lobbying a legislator on behalf of oil and gas is a toxic dollar that undermines public health and safety laws that protect Americans. That's contamination of the political system.

Josh Fox

HealthSafetyPoliticalOilProtect

Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

Douglas Horton

GoodIdeasFreeBadDozenDime

I'm a writer, not an activist. My job is to analyse things, to think them through and examine them.

Ariel Levy

JobThinkThroughThingsWriter

I only went along to youth theatre with a friend when I was young to try to make myself a bit more sociable. But the whole thing was quite sore; it really hurt me trying to get into drama school. It was a world I knew nothing about - it was very middle class; all that usual stuff. But I was young, determined, and I just went for it.

Anne-Marie Duff

FriendMyselfSchoolYouthTheatre

Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.

William Howard Taft

FailureGreatManWeaknessCredit

The overall view of the human genome project has been one of great excitement and positive press, but there are people who have concerns that are quite reasonable, and they are frightened of things they don't understand.

Thomas R. Cech

PositiveGreatPeopleViewProject

I've done stuff with Bud Light, but do I want to take on a beer sponsor knowing most of my community is younger kids who can't drink? There are still a lot of people over 21 who watch. You're never going to hit your exact target audience.

Ninja

CommunityLightBeerPeopleYou

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